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Experimental investigation on thermal properties of Ag nanowire nanofluids at low concentrations

Experimental investigation on thermal properties of Ag nanowire nanofluids at low concentrations, 2019
New nanofluids containing Ag nanowires with different concentrations were prepared by chemical reduction method. The metallic nanowires were monodispersed and soluble in distilled water. Thermal properties of na-nofluids containing Ag nanowires were obtained using photothermal techniques. The thermal-wave resonator cavity (TWRC) technique was used to obtain the samples' thermal diffusivity. Open Photoacoustic Cell (OPC) technique was used to obtain the thermal effusivity of Ag nanowires. The thermal diffusivity and effusivity were obtained by fitting the theoretical expressions for each configuration as a function of the sample thickness and frequency to the experimental data. The thermal properties of the nanofluids seems to be strongly dependent of Ag nanowire concentration. It was observed an increase of thermal parameters when concentration of nanowires increased. Thermal conductivity behavior of the nanofluids is explained. UV-vis spectroscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) techniques were used to characterize the nanofluids....Read more
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Thermochimica Acta journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/tca Experimental investigation on thermal properties of Ag nanowire nanofuids at low concentrations R. Carbajal-Valdéz a , A. Rodríguez-Juárez b , J.L. Jiménez-Pérez b, , J.F. Sánchez-Ramírez c , A. Cruz-Orea d , Z.N. Correa-Pacheco e , M. Macias d , J.L. Luna-Sánchez b a CONACYT, SENER-Instituto Tecnológico de Celaya, Antonio García Cubas 600. Col. Fovissste, Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico b UPIITA-Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Avenida Instituto Politécnico Nacional No. 2580, Col Barrio la Laguna Ticomán, Gustavo A. Madero, Ciudad de México, C.P. 07340, Mexico c Instituto Politécnico Nacional-CIBA, Ex-Hacienda San Juan Molino Carretera Estatal Tecuexcomac-Tepetitla Km 1.5, Tlaxcala, C.P. 90700, Mexico d Departamento de Física, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional-IPN, Av. IPN No. 2508, Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, 07360, Ciudad de México, Mexico e CONACYT, Centro de Desarrollo de Productos Bióticos-Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CEPROBI-IPN), Carretera Yautepec-Jojutla, Km. 6, calle CEPROBI No. 8, Col. San Isidro, Yautepec, Morelos, C.P. 62731, Mexico ARTICLEINFO Keywords: Nanowires Photothermal techniques Thermal parameters Nanofuids tHermal conductivity ABSTRACT New nanofuids containing Ag nanowires with diferent concentrations were prepared by chemical reduction method. The metallic nanowires were monodispersed and soluble in distilled water. Thermal properties of na- nofuids containing Ag nanowires were obtained using photothermal techniques. The thermal-wave resonator cavity (TWRC) technique was used to obtain the samples’ thermal difusivity. Open Photoacoustic Cell (OPC) technique was used to obtain the thermal efusivity of Ag nanowires. The thermal difusivity and efusivity were obtained by ftting the theoretical expressions for each confguration as a function of the sample thickness and frequency to the experimental data. The thermal properties of the nanofuids seems to be strongly dependent of Ag nanowire concentration. It was observed an increase of thermal parameters when concentration of nanowires increased. Thermal conductivity behavior of the nanofuids is explained. UV–vis spectroscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) and X-ray difraction (XRD) techniques were used to characterize the nanofuids. 1. Introduction In recent years, nanofuids have attracted great interest in the in- dustry and in the scientifc community. The most important applica- tions of nanofuids are in heat transport and its thermophysical prop- erties such as thermal conductivity, viscosity and dielectric constant have been enhanced by the use diferent concentrations of nano- particles, nanowires or nanotubes [1]. However, the thermal efciency of natural fuids is not enough efective and can cause damage to ma- chines where a cooling system is required, resulting in overheating. This increase causes the thermal conductivity of the industrial fuids to increase, hence, the fuids are in the spotlight in day-to-day industrial work. Current research has found that the addition of nanoparticles in fuids can improve the efciency of the thermal properties of the fuid, such as conductivity, difusivity and thermal efusivity. An example of this, is the work of Choi et al. [2]. They found that the thermal con- ductivity was improved by 160% by adding 1% of carbon nanotubes volumetric fraction in an oil suspension. According to other investiga- tions, diferent materials, sizes, shapes and concentrations of nano- particles were used to improve the thermal conductivity of nanofuids [1–5]. Among particles, metal nanoparticles have deserved special at- tention because of surface electron oscillations caused by the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) efect. Of special importance are the silver nanoparticles (Ag) because they have low production cost and are ea- sily available, being used for shape-controlled synthesis [1,6–7]. They have been often used as thermal additives for preparation of nanofuids [8,9]. In many works, spherical silver nanoparticles have been studied, however, the efect of low concentrations has been rarely considered [10–13]. Nanostructures such as nanowires have been used in nano- fuids, due to the surface-volume ratio that increases the heat transfer [14]. It is important to highlight that there are few researchers who have added nanowires in fuids in small proportions in order to enrich this fuid from the point of view of Nanotechnology. On the other hand, the evaluation on the thermal conductivity of nanofuids has not been https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tca.2018.11.015 Received 11 July 2018; Received in revised form 23 September 2018; Accepted 18 November 2018 Corresponding author. E-mail address: jimenezp@fs.cinvestav.mx (J.L. Jiménez-Pérez). Thermochimica Acta 671 (2019) 83–88 Available online 19 November 2018 0040-6031/ © 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. T
accomplished. In this work, silver nanowires were added in distilled water at low concentrations to study their thermophysical properties by thermal-wave resonator cavity (TWRC) and open cell photoacoustic (OPC) techniques with the purpose of producing more efective, stable and uniform nanofuids. It was found, that the heat transfer of the fuid was improved, therefore Ag nanowire-based nanofuids could have possible applications in heat transport to reduce the losses of heat transfer in industrial machines of high efciency, in the feld of cooling of electronic equipment, in solar energy systems, heat exchangers and machining processes. 2. Theory Thermal difusivity and efusivity of the nanofuids were measured by using the TWRC and OPC techniques [15–18]. 2.1. Thermal wave resonator cavity (TWRC) In this work diferent concentrations of nanoliquids were acquired and their thermal difusivities measured by a cavity-length scan in the TWRC device. The temperature fuctuations at x = l, interface between sample and pyroelectric (PE) detector, can be detected with the PE sensor as a function of the sample thickness. The PPE (photopyroelectric) signal is amplifed by the lock-in amplifer, at the reference of the beam mod- ulation frequency (f), where its PPE amplitude and phase are measured as a function of the sample thickness (l). For the situation in which the sample in the TWRC may be con- sidered as thermally thick, i.e., |ql| > 1, where q = (2π fi/D s ) 1/2 , with i = (−1) ½ and D s the sample thermal difusivity, the PE sensor output voltage, is given by Eq. (1) [15,16]. V (l) = V 0 exp(−ql) (1) where V 0 is a modulation frequency-dependent factor. Eq. (1) is a complex equation because q is a complex quantity, contains the factor i = (−1) ½ , then this equation can be represented in polar coordinates, which have a module, related directly with the ex- perimental amplitude data measured by the lock-in amplifer, and a phase, related directly with the experimental phase data measured by the same lock-in amplifer. Since the PE signal, for thermally thick samples, depends on the sample thickness (l s ) in a simple linear way, as is shown in Eq. (1), the thermal difusivity can be obtained from the slope of the natural logarithm of the PPE signal amplitude or from the slope of the PPE signal phase, as a function of l. 2.2. TWRC experimental setup In the TWRC technique, a cavity consists of two parallel walls: one wall acts as the thermal-wave generator and the other wall is a pyro- electric transducer as shown in Fig. 1. The experimental arrangement consists of a diode laser whose beam was modulated by the internal oscillator of a lock-in amplifer at 4 Hz. The modulated light impinges on a thin copper foil of 100 μm thick mounted on an automatic cy- lindrical micrometer stage controlled by a PC. This stage allowed the cavity length to vary with a 1 μm step resolution. The modulated light was absorbed on the highly conducting thin copper foil, which acted as an optical-to-thermal power converter. The cylindrical module was dipped in the sample as showed in Fig. 1. Thermal waves conducted across the liquid interface reached the PVDF pyroelectric sensor of 110 μm thickness. The PE signal generated in the sensor was amplifed by a lock-in amplifer. The complex Eq. 1 was adjusted in the amplitude and phase to the experimental amplitude and phase data, as mentioned before. All measurements were performed at room temperature. 2.3. Open photoacoustic cell (OPC) OPC technique, was used for the thermal efusivity measurements [17]. In this technique, a laser beam is modulated by using a me- chanical chopper, at an angular frequency ω = 2πf. The details of the cross section of the photoacoustic cell and experimental cell are shown in Figs. 2 and 3. In the OPC technique, the liquid sample is placed on an aluminum foil, of known thermal efusivity. An electret microphone connected to the cell detects the heat generated due to the temperature rise and then it difuses into the photoacoustic (PA) gas chamber modulating the pressure (acoustic waves) within the PA cell. A lock-in amplifer interfaced with a data acquisition system measures the mi- crophone-response signal. For the calculation of the thermal efusivity the obtained photo- acoustic signal of each sample is normalized, by using the photo- acoustic signal when the sample is air, and the following equation was used [18]: = e l c I s R 0 0 0 (2) where 0 is the density of the used aluminum foil (2.7 gcm −3 ), c 0 is the specifc heat of the aluminum foil (0.9 Jg -1 °C -1 ), l 0 is the thickness of the aluminum foil (16 μm), = f 2 being f the modulation frequency of the excitation beam in the sample, and I R is the slope of the nor- malized photoacoustic signal, as a function of the square root of f. The cell was calibrated with water in order to compare with the values reported in the literature. The obtained value for distilled water was ( = ± e Ws 1487.05 47 HO 1/2 2 / ° m C 2 ) and the reported value is = e Ws 1570 HO 1/2 2 / ° m C [19] 2 ). It can be seen that the obtained value was similar to the reported one. 2.4. Materials For silver nanowires synthesis, the following reactants without treatment were used: silver nitrate (AgNO 3 99.6%, Aldrich), PVP (PM 55,000 g/mol, Aldrich), glycerol (C 3 H 5 (OH) 3 , 99.90%, J.T. Baker) and sodium chloride (NaCl, 99.0%, Meyer). 2.5. Preparation of silver nanowires (AgNWs) The procedure adopted for AgNWs synthesis was as follows: 0.6 g of PVP were dissolved with 19 mL of glycerol during 36 h at room tem- perature. Then, the solution was added into a round-bottom fask and 0.158 g of AgNO 3 were added to the solution with vigorous stirring until AgNO 3 was fully dissolved. Afterwards, a solution of 5.85 mg of NaCl in 0.05 mL of H 2 O was prepared and 1 mL of glycerol was added. The last solution was put into the fask and the reaction temperature of the mixture rapidly raised to 220 °C (roughly with a heating speed of 2.75 °C/min) on a hot plate (Cornic model PC-4200) with magnetic stirring at 50 rpm in aerated condition. When the reaction was stopped and the fask cooled down to room temperature, deionized water was added into the fask in a 1:1 vol ratio, and then the mixture was cen- trifuged at 7000 rpm until all visible products were collected. The transparent supernatant was discarded and the obtained AgNWs were washed with water three times to remove the PVP residue. Then, the nanowires were dispersed in ethanol and again cen- trifuged at 4000 rpm for 10 min. The fnal product was dispersed in distilled water to obtain nanofuids containing AgNWs with diferent concentrations and the thermal measurement and further character- ization were done. The obtained dispersion did not contain any visible solids and was stable for more than three months without signifcant changes in the spectral pattern indicating that these nanofuids are highly stable (see Fig. 4). R. Carbajal-Valdéz et al. Thermochimica Acta 671 (2019) 83–88 84
Thermochimica Acta 671 (2019) 83–88 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Thermochimica Acta journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/tca Experimental investigation on thermal properties of Ag nanowire nanofluids at low concentrations T R. Carbajal-Valdéza, A. Rodríguez-Juárezb, J.L. Jiménez-Pérezb, , J.F. Sánchez-Ramírezc, A. Cruz-Oread, Z.N. Correa-Pachecoe, M. Maciasd, J.L. Luna-Sánchezb ⁎ a CONACYT, SENER-Instituto Tecnológico de Celaya, Antonio García Cubas 600. Col. Fovissste, Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico UPIITA-Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Avenida Instituto Politécnico Nacional No. 2580, Col Barrio la Laguna Ticomán, Gustavo A. Madero, Ciudad de México, C.P. 07340, Mexico c Instituto Politécnico Nacional-CIBA, Ex-Hacienda San Juan Molino Carretera Estatal Tecuexcomac-Tepetitla Km 1.5, Tlaxcala, C.P. 90700, Mexico d Departamento de Física, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional-IPN, Av. IPN No. 2508, Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, 07360, Ciudad de México, Mexico e CONACYT, Centro de Desarrollo de Productos Bióticos-Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CEPROBI-IPN), Carretera Yautepec-Jojutla, Km. 6, calle CEPROBI No. 8, Col. San Isidro, Yautepec, Morelos, C.P. 62731, Mexico b A R TICL E INFO A BSTR A CT Keywords: Nanowires Photothermal techniques Thermal parameters Nanofluids tHermal conductivity New nanofluids containing Ag nanowires with different concentrations were prepared by chemical reduction method. The metallic nanowires were monodispersed and soluble in distilled water. Thermal properties of nanofluids containing Ag nanowires were obtained using photothermal techniques. The thermal-wave resonator cavity (TWRC) technique was used to obtain the samples’ thermal diffusivity. Open Photoacoustic Cell (OPC) technique was used to obtain the thermal effusivity of Ag nanowires. The thermal diffusivity and effusivity were obtained by fitting the theoretical expressions for each configuration as a function of the sample thickness and frequency to the experimental data. The thermal properties of the nanofluids seems to be strongly dependent of Ag nanowire concentration. It was observed an increase of thermal parameters when concentration of nanowires increased. Thermal conductivity behavior of the nanofluids is explained. UV–vis spectroscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) techniques were used to characterize the nanofluids. 1. Introduction In recent years, nanofluids have attracted great interest in the industry and in the scientific community. The most important applications of nanofluids are in heat transport and its thermophysical properties such as thermal conductivity, viscosity and dielectric constant have been enhanced by the use different concentrations of nanoparticles, nanowires or nanotubes [1]. However, the thermal efficiency of natural fluids is not enough effective and can cause damage to machines where a cooling system is required, resulting in overheating. This increase causes the thermal conductivity of the industrial fluids to increase, hence, the fluids are in the spotlight in day-to-day industrial work. Current research has found that the addition of nanoparticles in fluids can improve the efficiency of the thermal properties of the fluid, such as conductivity, diffusivity and thermal effusivity. An example of this, is the work of Choi et al. [2]. They found that the thermal conductivity was improved by 160% by adding 1% of carbon nanotubes ⁎ volumetric fraction in an oil suspension. According to other investigations, different materials, sizes, shapes and concentrations of nanoparticles were used to improve the thermal conductivity of nanofluids [1–5]. Among particles, metal nanoparticles have deserved special attention because of surface electron oscillations caused by the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) effect. Of special importance are the silver nanoparticles (Ag) because they have low production cost and are easily available, being used for shape-controlled synthesis [1,6–7]. They have been often used as thermal additives for preparation of nanofluids [8,9]. In many works, spherical silver nanoparticles have been studied, however, the effect of low concentrations has been rarely considered [10–13]. Nanostructures such as nanowires have been used in nanofluids, due to the surface-volume ratio that increases the heat transfer [14]. It is important to highlight that there are few researchers who have added nanowires in fluids in small proportions in order to enrich this fluid from the point of view of Nanotechnology. On the other hand, the evaluation on the thermal conductivity of nanofluids has not been Corresponding author. E-mail address: jimenezp@fis.cinvestav.mx (J.L. Jiménez-Pérez). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tca.2018.11.015 Received 11 July 2018; Received in revised form 23 September 2018; Accepted 18 November 2018 Available online 19 November 2018 0040-6031/ © 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Thermochimica Acta 671 (2019) 83–88 R. Carbajal-Valdéz et al. accomplished. In this work, silver nanowires were added in distilled water at low concentrations to study their thermophysical properties by thermal-wave resonator cavity (TWRC) and open cell photoacoustic (OPC) techniques with the purpose of producing more effective, stable and uniform nanofluids. It was found, that the heat transfer of the fluid was improved, therefore Ag nanowire-based nanofluids could have possible applications in heat transport to reduce the losses of heat transfer in industrial machines of high efficiency, in the field of cooling of electronic equipment, in solar energy systems, heat exchangers and machining processes. 2.3. Open photoacoustic cell (OPC) OPC technique, was used for the thermal effusivity measurements [17]. In this technique, a laser beam is modulated by using a mechanical chopper, at an angular frequency ω = 2πf. The details of the cross section of the photoacoustic cell and experimental cell are shown in Figs. 2 and 3. In the OPC technique, the liquid sample is placed on an aluminum foil, of known thermal effusivity. An electret microphone connected to the cell detects the heat generated due to the temperature rise and then it diffuses into the photoacoustic (PA) gas chamber modulating the pressure (acoustic waves) within the PA cell. A lock-in amplifier interfaced with a data acquisition system measures the microphone-response signal. For the calculation of the thermal effusivity the obtained photoacoustic signal of each sample is normalized, by using the photoacoustic signal when the sample is air, and the following equation was used [18]: 2. Theory Thermal diffusivity and effusivity of the nanofluids were measured by using the TWRC and OPC techniques [15–18]. 2.1. Thermal wave resonator cavity (TWRC) es = l0 0 c0 IR (2) In this work different concentrations of nanoliquids were acquired and their thermal diffusivities measured by a cavity-length scan in the TWRC device. The temperature fluctuations at x = l, interface between sample and pyroelectric (PE) detector, can be detected with the PE sensor as a function of the sample thickness. The PPE (photopyroelectric) signal is amplified by the lock-in amplifier, at the reference of the beam modulation frequency (f), where its PPE amplitude and phase are measured as a function of the sample thickness (l). For the situation in which the sample in the TWRC may be considered as thermally thick, i.e., |ql| > 1, where q = (2π f i/Ds)1/2, with i = (−1) ½ and Ds the sample thermal diffusivity, the PE sensor output voltage, is given by Eq. (1) [15,16]. where 0 is the density of the used aluminum foil (2.7 gcm−3), c0 is the specific heat of the aluminum foil (0.9 Jg-1 °C-1), l 0 is the thickness of the aluminum foil (16 μm), = 2 f being f the modulation frequency of the excitation beam in the sample, and IR is the slope of the normalized photoacoustic signal, as a function of the square root of f. The cell was calibrated with water in order to compare with the values reported in the literature. The obtained value for distilled water was (e H2 O = 1487.05 ± 47 Ws1/2 / m2°C ) and the reported value is e H2 O = 1570 Ws1/2 / m2°C [19]). It can be seen that the obtained value was similar to the reported one. V (l) = V0exp(−ql) 2.4. Materials (1) where V0 is a modulation frequency-dependent factor. Eq. (1) is a complex equation because q is a complex quantity, contains the factor i = (−1) ½, then this equation can be represented in polar coordinates, which have a module, related directly with the experimental amplitude data measured by the lock-in amplifier, and a phase, related directly with the experimental phase data measured by the same lock-in amplifier. Since the PE signal, for thermally thick samples, depends on the sample thickness (ls) in a simple linear way, as is shown in Eq. (1), the thermal diffusivity can be obtained from the slope of the natural logarithm of the PPE signal amplitude or from the slope of the PPE signal phase, as a function of l. For silver nanowires synthesis, the following reactants without treatment were used: silver nitrate (AgNO3 99.6%, Aldrich), PVP (PM 55,000 g/mol, Aldrich), glycerol (C3H5(OH)3, 99.90%, J.T. Baker) and sodium chloride (NaCl, 99.0%, Meyer). 2.5. Preparation of silver nanowires (AgNWs) The procedure adopted for AgNWs synthesis was as follows: 0.6 g of PVP were dissolved with 19 mL of glycerol during 36 h at room temperature. Then, the solution was added into a round-bottom flask and 0.158 g of AgNO3 were added to the solution with vigorous stirring until AgNO3 was fully dissolved. Afterwards, a solution of 5.85 mg of NaCl in 0.05 mL of H2O was prepared and 1 mL of glycerol was added. The last solution was put into the flask and the reaction temperature of the mixture rapidly raised to 220 °C (roughly with a heating speed of 2.75 °C/min) on a hot plate (Cornic model PC-4200) with magnetic stirring at 50 rpm in aerated condition. When the reaction was stopped and the flask cooled down to room temperature, deionized water was added into the flask in a 1:1 vol ratio, and then the mixture was centrifuged at 7000 rpm until all visible products were collected. The transparent supernatant was discarded and the obtained AgNWs were washed with water three times to remove the PVP residue. Then, the nanowires were dispersed in ethanol and again centrifuged at 4000 rpm for 10 min. The final product was dispersed in distilled water to obtain nanofluids containing AgNWs with different concentrations and the thermal measurement and further characterization were done. The obtained dispersion did not contain any visible solids and was stable for more than three months without significant changes in the spectral pattern indicating that these nanofluids are highly stable (see Fig. 4). 2.2. TWRC experimental setup In the TWRC technique, a cavity consists of two parallel walls: one wall acts as the thermal-wave generator and the other wall is a pyroelectric transducer as shown in Fig. 1. The experimental arrangement consists of a diode laser whose beam was modulated by the internal oscillator of a lock-in amplifier at 4 Hz. The modulated light impinges on a thin copper foil of 100 μm thick mounted on an automatic cylindrical micrometer stage controlled by a PC. This stage allowed the cavity length to vary with a 1 μm step resolution. The modulated light was absorbed on the highly conducting thin copper foil, which acted as an optical-to-thermal power converter. The cylindrical module was dipped in the sample as showed in Fig. 1. Thermal waves conducted across the liquid interface reached the PVDF pyroelectric sensor of 110 μm thickness. The PE signal generated in the sensor was amplified by a lock-in amplifier. The complex Eq. 1 was adjusted in the amplitude and phase to the experimental amplitude and phase data, as mentioned before. All measurements were performed at room temperature. 84 Thermochimica Acta 671 (2019) 83–88 R. Carbajal-Valdéz et al. Fig. 1. Thermal-wave resonant cavity (TWRC) experimental set-up. Fig. 2. Open photoacoustic cell (OPC) experimental setup. Fig. 4. UV–vis absorption spectra of nanowires nanofluids obtained (̶) immediately after preparation and (—) after three months. path length of 1 cm. The nanofluid was place in a quartz cell. Powder Xray diffraction (XRD) spectra of the AgNWs were obtained using a PANalytical X-ray Diffractometer, Model X’pert, with a CuKα radiation (λ = 1.transm5406 Å), 40 kV– 40 mA, 2θ/θ scanning mode. Data was taken for the 2θ range of 30 to 90 ° with a step of 0.02 and speed of 2 s/ step. 3. Results and discussion Silver nanowires were synthesized by polyol process. The polyol process is based on reduction of an inorganic salt by a polyol at an elevated temperature. A polyol is a compound with multiple hydroxyl functional groups available for organic reactions. In the polyol method, glycerol is used as both, solvent and reducing agent, PVP is used as stabilizing agent, and AgNO3 is used as Ag source. The UV–vis absorption spectrum of the synthesized solution is shown in Fig. 4. The plasmon absorption peak appeared at 378 nm as indicative of AgNWs formation. A shoulder peak appeared at about 350 nm and is an optical characteristic for bulk silver. Absence of absorption peak at wavelengths higher than 400 nm indicates that the final product is thoroughly AgNWs [17]. Nevertheless, the wide peak may indicate that a small amount of other morphologies such as spherical nanoparticles are present. Fig. 3. Cross section of the open photoacoustic cell (OPC). 2.6. Characterization The AgNWs morphology was analyzed by Scanning electron microscopy (Vega©tescan SN: VG1540475MX) at 15 kV. UV–vis analysis was performed on a GENESYS 10S UV–vis Spectrophotometer GD10S UV–vis from 300 to 600 nm with a slit wavelength of 2 nm and light 85 Thermochimica Acta 671 (2019) 83–88 R. Carbajal-Valdéz et al. Fig. 5. AgNWs morphology: (a) SEM image of AgNWs (magnification 2750) and (b) normalized diameter size distribution of AgNWs; average diameter was calculated from Gaussian fitting of the histogram. SEM images of the synthesized AgNWs is shown in Fig. 5. From the images, it can be observed that the AgNWs are very homogenous in morphology. It is clearly shown that AgNWs with a length up to 10 μm have been synthesized with high yield. The diameter of the nanowires was 96.04 nm with a standard deviation of 13.67%, indicating that the AgNWs are homogenous. Fig. 6 shows the typical XRD pattern of AgNWs. The diffraction peaks occurring at 38.1°, 44.82°, 64.62°, 77.2°, and 81.56° are indexed as (111), (200), (220), (311), and (222) facets, being consistent well with a face-centered-cubic (fcc) Ag crystalline structure which is in accordance with the literature presented by Yang et al. 2015 [20] (JCPDS card number 87-0717). The calculated lattice constants according to the spacing distance dg of the {111} planes and the equation: 1/ d2 = h2 + k2 + l2/a2 is 4.088 Å [21] and it is in agreement with the literature value of 4.086 Å. No peaks for other crystal types are observed. The sharp diffraction peaks indicated the sample having a high crystallinity. Therefore, pure silver nanowires were obtained under the present synthesis conditions. The intensity ratios of (111)/(200) and (111)/(220) peaks were 5.58 and 7.59 respectively, which were relatively higher than the conventional 2.5 and 4 values which are described by Li et al. [22]. Therefore, this would indicate that the {111} planes of silver tend to be preferentially oriented for the polyol method. The PE signal amplitude is shown in Fig. 7, as a function of the cavity length from the AgNWs sample in the TWRC experiment. The solid line, represents the best linear fit of Eq. (1) to the experimental PE data of the ln(amplitude). From this fit, the obtained mean thermal diffusivity was (16.04 ± 0.17) × 10−8 m2 s−1 for the sample with concentration of 7 × 10−4 Vol. %. Similar measurements were carried out to determine the thermal diffusivity for the other concentrations. Resulting thermal-diffusivity values of the AgNWs are summarized in Table 1. Fig. 8 shows the typical behavior of the normalized OPC signal, as a Fig. 7. Natural logarithm of the TWRC signal amplitude as a function of the relative cavity length for AgNWs with concentration of 7 × 10−4 Vol. %. Fig. 6. XRD pattern of silver nanowires synthesized by polyol process. 86 Thermochimica Acta 671 (2019) 83–88 R. Carbajal-Valdéz et al. In order to compare the obtained results with reported values in the literature, it was found the value of thermal conductivity for water (k = 0.613 W/m K [23]), thermal diffusivity (D = 14.0 × 10−8 m2/s [24]) and thermal effusivity (e = 1570 W s1/2/ m2 K [19]), that are very near with the calibration obtained values in this study. From the results obtained in this work, it was found that the thermal conductivity enrichment of the AgNWs (φ = 96 nm × 40 μm) was from 4 to 20.8 for volumetric fraction between 3.5 × 10−6 and 1.74 × 10-4 vol. %., as shown in Fig. 9. Thermal conductivity enhancement increase in a non-linear way for low volume concentrations. Similar results were reported for Ag spherical nanoparticles with 55 nm in size, with concentrations from 1 × 10-5 to 1.02 × 10-3 vol. % and thermal conductivity enhancement from 4 to 21.0 Vol. %, respectively and also with increase non-linear way for low Vol % [25]. The high thermal conductivity enhancement of the AgNWs, can be related with the specific surface area of the nanowires compared with Ag spherical nanoparticles, layering at the liquid solid surface interface and also Brownian motion may be responsible for enhancement. However, our results are in good agreement with many research works [25,26] i.e., the thermal conductivities of nanofluids increase as particle volume concentration increase. It is interesting to note that the model by Patel et al. [26] quite accurately match with the experimental data for silver-water nanofluids which show a non-linear increase of thermal conductivity as a function of concentration. From the comparisons, due to there are few works related to thermal conductivity of AgNWs at low concentrations to compare with our experimental results, it is concluded, that further research is needed to develop a suitable model to predict the anomalous increase of thermal conductivity in nanofluids of which will take into account several possible factors in enhancing the heat transfer performance of nanofluids [25,26]. Table 1 Thermal diffusivity (D), effusivity (e), volumetric heat capacity (ρc), conductivity (k) and thermal conductivity enhancement of the evaluated samples. AgNws/water (Vol. %) Diffusivity D(10−8 m2/s) Effusivity e(Ws1/2/m2K) Conductivity Knf (W/mK) Conductivity enhancement ((knf – kbf) / kbf)×100(%) 3.5 × 10−6 4.7 × 10−6 7.0 × 10−4 1.36 × 10−4 1.74 × 10−4 14.00 15.11 16.04 16.58 17.75 1663 1687 1688 1694 1716 0.622 0.656 0.676 0.690 0.723 4 9.6 13 15.2 20.8 ± ± ± ± ± 0.18 0.20 0.17 0.16 0.24 ± ± ± ± ± 32 26 41 125 52 ± ± ± ± ± 0.013 0.011 0.017 0.051 0.023 where kbf = kwater = 0.61 W/ m K. Fig. 8. OPC signal, as a function of the f1/2(s−1/2) for Ag NWs with concentration of 7 × 10-4 Vol. %. 4. Conclusions In summary, silver nanowires (AgNWs) were successfully prepared using the polyol process. Subsequently, the physicochemical properties of AgNWs were investigated by UV–vis spectroscopy, SEM and XRD. Also, a complete thermal characterization of AgNWs was achieved by using two different photothermal techniques. Thermal diffusivity and thermal effusivity of the nanofluids were obtained at room temperature using the TWRC and OPC, respectively. The thermal conductivity (k) values were calculated from the definition of the thermal diffusivity (D = k/ (ρc)) and thermal effusivity e = (kρc)1/2. AgNWs showed an effective thermal transport property for low concentrations, as seen experimentally. For 3.5 × 10−6 vol% of AgNWs in the fluid, and enhancement of 4% was achieved, while an enhancement of 20.8% in thermal conductivity was found for 1.74 × 10-4 volume fraction of AgNWs. However, more research and new thermal models are necessary to predict the thermal properties of nanofluids. This study is a promising way for the elaboration of nanowires which can be used in heat transfer applications. Fig. 9. Ag nanofluids thermal conductivity enhancement of for different concentrations of AgNWs. function of the f1/2(s−1/2), where f is the light modulation frequency from the AgNWs (for the concentration sample of 7 × 10-4 vol%). The solid lines, in Fig. 8 shows the best fit of the Eq. (2) to the normalized OPC data. From this fit the obtained thermal effusivity for this sample is 1688.00 ± 41 Ws1/2/m2K. Similar measurements were carried out to determine the thermal effusivity of the AgNWs for the other samples. The values of thermal effusivity of Ag nanowires are summarized in the Table 1. Taking into consideration the definition of the thermal diffusivity (D=k/(ρc)) and thermal effusivity (e = (k ρc)1/2), where k is the thermal conductivity and ρc is the volumetric heat capacity, with ρ the density and c the specific heat, it is possible to obtain the k and ρc values from the obtained values of thermal diffusivity and thermal effusivity of the AgNWs. 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